Replication files for, "Punctuated equilibrium or incrementalism in policymaking: What we can and cannot learn from the distribution of policy changes." The code to replicate the analysis is in pe_replication.R. To replicate the results in the paper, set the working directory in R to point to the folder containing all of these files, and run the replication script.

gssEQWLTH.csv: GSS data.
gssEQWLTHvariance.pdf: GSS annual variance.gssEQWLTHbptest.txt: Heteroskedasticity test for GSS.
gssEQWLTHdescriptives.txt: Descriptive statistics for GSS data.pe_replication.R: R replication script.